In literature regionalism refers to fiction or poetry that focuses on specific features, such as dialect, customs, history, and landscape, of a particular region (also called local colour): Such a locale is likely to be rural and/or provincial.. Contents.
Sparging (chemistry) (Redirected from Sparger) In chemistry, sparging, also known as gas flushing in metallurgy, is a technique which involves bubbling a chemically inert gas, such as nitrogen, argon, or helium, through a liquid. This can be used to remove dissolved gases (e.g. oxygen) from the liquid.
Etymologists think that sparge likely came to English by way of the Middle French word espargier, itself from Latin spargere, meaning to scatter. (Spargere is also the source of disperse, intersperse, and sparse, among others.) Although sparge has been a synonym for sprinkle since the late 16th century, you're now most likely to come ...